Last week representatives from Drexel University were able to join ASEE for a brown bag luncheon seminar in which they discussed their outreach efforts to K-12 students and the global engineering community. When discussing their ENGR 280: Introduction to Global Engineering they mentioned briefly a film they show students in the class. The [...]

Fantastic Contraption seems like a spin off of Phun, the software that allows the user to design and explore 2D multi-physics simulations. Like Phun it allows users to create machines that behave according to simulated laws of physics. Players create a machine and then test their creations to see how they might work [...]

If you’re trying to infuse snack making with physics’ lessons, this would be the way to do it. You can find the complete instructions and explaination via the instructables website. Or, let a 10 year old demonstrate.

Boston Dynamics, a Boston-based engineering company, has recently demonstrated its prototype of BigDog, a robotic dog.

Kate McAlpine raps about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator designed to recreate the conditions of the universe after the big bang. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), created LHC with the hope that a peak of the early universe will be the beginning of really understanding it.
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As some scientists predict that hurricanes will grow stronger and more frequent over the next century, Greg Kopp, a researcher and civil engineering professor at the University of Western Ontario, is engineering a way to lessen their destructive impacts. Oftentimes, during a hurricane, the roof of the house is the first part of [...]

Engineers realized this untapped energy source by creating The PlayPump, a simple machine powered by kids at play.